Suzanne — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:22:30 +0000

I often get the answers from the search results alone, without even clicking on the links... Of course I have Google quick search in my browsers, too, so it's only ever one click away. I find it faster and easier to look it up than to work it out.

TonyMontana — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 05:27:46 +0000

Thanks. For scripts as light as these, it's nice not to have to do a Google search. This does one check for the OS:

// get browser
if (ereg( 'MSIE ([0-9].[0-9]{1,2})',$HTTP_USER_AGENT,$log_version)) { 
$BROWSER_VER=$log_version[1]; 
$BROWSER_AGENT='IE'; 

} elseif (ereg( 'Opera ([0-9].[0-9]{1,2})',$HTTP_USER_AGENT,$log_version)) { 
$BROWSER_VER=$log_version[1]; 
$BROWSER_AGENT='OPERA'; 
} elseif (ereg( 'Mozilla/([0-9].[0-9]{1,2})',$HTTP_USER_AGENT,$log_version)) { 
$BROWSER_VER=$log_version[1]; 
$BROWSER_AGENT='MOZILLA'; 
} else { 
$BROWSER_VER=0; 
$BROWSER_AGENT='OTHER'; 
} 

/* 
get platform
*/ 

if (strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,'Win')) { 
$BROWSER_PLATFORM='Win'; 
$winOS = true;
} else if (strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,'Mac')) { 
$BROWSER_PLATFORM='Mac'; 
} else if (strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,'Linux')) { 
$BROWSER_PLATFORM='Linux'; 
} else if (strstr($HTTP_USER_AGENT,'Unix')) { 
$BROWSER_PLATFORM='Unix'; 
} else { 
$BROWSER_PLATFORM='Other'; 
} 

Suzanne — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:17:50 +0000

http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+browser+detect+mac+ie

Basically you need to check two things to determine whether it's a mac or not.

http://webreference.com/tools/browser/javascript.html seems to be the best and most robust of the bunch.